Coffee-cooker.



No. 837,834. PATENTED DBO. 4, 1906. M. M. HERRERA.

GOFFEB COCKER. urmou1on rmm me. 24. 1905.

subjected to to become softened, so as to partiafly d1ssolve ing drawings,

. and is also provided with taining the Weightof the steamer.

, indica corresp ending parts in all the figures.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

fGOFFE-GOOKER.

Speciflcafibn cf Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4:, 1906.

Application i11 .hgut 24 1905. Sefiallo. 275.891.

Ta all whom it mzty concem;

Be it known that I, NIGEL M. Hnnnnna, a citizen of the Republic of Veneznela, and a resident of Caracas, Venezuela, S0llth America, have invented a new and Improved Colee-Cooker, of which the following is a full, clear,- and exactdescflption.

My invention relates to cofiee-cookers, my more particular object being to provide a. vessel to be used in connection with a cofiee pot in such manner that the ground eofiee is the action of steam and allowed and also to permit the hot water used for this purpose to percolate through the ground coffee mto the cofee-pot.

Refrence is to be had to the accompany forming a part of this specifica tien, in winch similar characters of reference Figure 1 is a perspective view of a eoffeepot to be used in connection With my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section through the steamer used in connection With the cofieepot. Fig. 3 is a vertical erosssee tion throngh both the steamer and the cofiee pot, showing the water as percolating throngh tle gronnd cofiee. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of the annular grid sed as a partition within the steamer, and Fig. 5 is a prspective view of another annular grid 1ised as a cap for the steamer.

The cofiee pot is shown at 6 and the steamer at 7, the latter being provided vvith ahandle 8, whereby it ma; 'be inverted. Mounted within the steamer 7 is a tube 9, open at both ends and communicafing With the atmosphere at the point 9*- The steamer is provided with an anmflar bead 10, projecting 'slightl; inward. A circular grid 11 is provided with a knob 12 serving as a handle, a cupped edge 11 the annnlar bead 10. The provided with perforations 11", as may be seen from Fig. 4. The steamer 7 is further provided with an annular bead 13 of the shape in 'cated in Fig. 3. When the steamer is inverted, as indicated in for resting upon grid 11 is further colating watching the this figure, the bead 13 rests direetly upon the upper edge of the Cofieepot 6, tlms e s gronnd eofiee to be operated upo1i is shown at 14 and encircles the knob 12. A cap 15 is rovided w'ith a cupped edge 16 and with a andle 17. By means of the handle 17 the cap may be fitted tightlyinto the steamer, as indnated in Figs. 2 and 3. The water to be operated upon is shown at 18 and the finished cofiee at 19. The drops of liquid cofiee per through the ground mass are shown at 20. A- lid 21 is of appropriate size t0 fit over the cofieepot 6 or over the steamer 7. My device is used as follows: The steame1 7 is filled nearly full W ith the clear water 18, as, indicated in Fig. 2. The grid 11 is next placed in position, he.handle 12 being used for this pnrpose. The ground cofiee 14 is then poured in and the cap 15 is forced into the upper and of the steamer, fitting tighfly in position. The lid 21 is now placed upon the steamer. This lid also upon the eofieepot 6 and ma, be transferred to the same from the steamer. prepared as just described and as indicated in Fig. 2 is next plaeed upon a stove or over a gas-jet or lamp or set in a pan of hot water in order chat heat may be applied. The clear water 18 soon begins t0 boil and steam passes upwardly through the perforated grid 11', finding its way through the gronnd cofiee 14. The cofiee is thus gradnally softened a little, and its solubleparts are dissolved under the action of' the steam. The operator by oint 9 is able to tell from the nantity and t lie character of the steam when t e cofiee has cooked sufiicienfly. When this result is accomplished, he .grasps the handle 8 and inverts the steamer, as indicated in Fig. 3, fitting the upper (and of the steamer into the eofie&pot 6. The Water 18, Whieh by this time has received a small coloration from the essence et the eofieegrounds, owing to the condensation o steam and the (hippings from the cofiee-grounds, now percolates through themass of ground eofiee, as indicated in 3, in drops 20. As soon as of the liquidpasses through the ground cofiee steamer is removed and the cofizee pou1ed out of the ebfi'eepot Having thus descfibed my invention, I daim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a cofi7eecooker. the combinafion of a steamer provided with an annular bead projeecing internafiy thereoi, a perforated member detachably mounted within said 'steamer and engaging said annnlar bead, said perforated memb&r being provided With a knob servin-; as a handle and also as a spacing mflfllml, anmher peorated member detaeh The steamer being ablymounted within said steamer and adapt In testimony whereof I have signed my ed t0 engage s&id knob which forms a. limit name to this specification in the prosence of ingstop therefor, a cover for said steamer, two subscribing witnesses.

and a receptacle provided with :1 portion for engagmg a portion of said steamer when the MIGUEL HERRERA' latter is inverted thereupon for the purpose Witnesses: of allowingthe finished coflee to percolate A MARIANO SAUZ,

thereinto. WALTON H ARRSON. 

